Mortgages

UTB doubles maximum loan size to £2m

United Trust Bank Mortgages has doubled its maximum residential first charge mortgage loan size...

Salary gains not being translated into larger deposits

Twenty7Tec has revealed that over the past few years, while salaries have increased, the...

All eyes are on Threadneedle Street as Nationwide increases fixed rates up to 0.15%

Nationwide has yielded to market pressures and joined its high-street counterparts in raising selected...

MPowered Mortgages using digital assistant to give criteria answers to brokers

MPowered Mortgages has unveiled a voice-activated digital assistant to provide brokers with answers in...

Housing affordability still stretched despite recent wage growth

Housing affordability remains stretched by historic standards despite recent earnings growth marginally outpacing house...

Stonebridge reports further improvement in mortgage affordability

November saw mortgage affordability improve for the second consecutive month, according to new analysis...

Loughborough BS switches to new mortgage origination platform

Loughborough Building Society has introduced its new mortgage origination platform and integrated credit decisioning...

Mansfield BS cuts discounted mortgage rates by up to 6bps

Mansfield Building Society has reduced rates on its prime discounted variable-rate mortgage products and...

RAW Capital Partners unveils new five-year fixed rates

RAW Capital Partners has launched a new range of five-year fixed rates, including discounted...

Pivotal Growth makes another broker acquisition

Pivotal Growth has acquired Radcliffe & Newlands Mortgages, a residential mortgage and protection broker...

Nationwide For Intermediaries ups minimum income requirement for Helping Hand

Nationwide For Intermediaries has increased the sole applicant minimum income for its Helping Hand...

Major rise in uptake of 35+ year mortgages

Freedom of Information (FOI) data from the FCA, analysed by Quilter, has shown a...

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank align lending into retirement policies

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank have been working to align their policies for lending...

Coventry for intermediaries cuts BTL & residential rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a selection of residential and buy-to-let fixed rates by...
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COMMENT

Comment

The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

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